​2 killed, 3 injured i January 31, 2015Afghanistan Mohammed cartoon protesters fire at police Kabul demonstrations against the cartoons published by French magazine Charlie Hebdo Around 500 protesters chanted “Death to France” and “Death to the Infidels.” Protesters started to throw burning tires, stones at law enforcement officers, then some opened fire on police.

2014 Sydney hostage crisisA coronial inquest into the siege at the Lindt Cafe in the center of Sydney begins. one hostage was killed by gunman Man Haron Monis while another was killed by fragments of a bullet or bullets fired by police

1 killed other driver at fault January 29, 2015Thompson School District CFO dies after head-on crash in Fort Collins The Denver Post Thompson School District chief financial officer Steve Towne died early Friday after a head-on crash in Fort Collins the night before. Towne was driving a 1995 Chevrolet Geo southbound on South Taft Hill Road about 7:10 p.m. Thursday when a northbound pickup drifted into his lane north of Harmony Road, Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis said. The vehicles hit head-on, according to Lewis. still investigating what caused the truck to drift across the median lane, but they do not believe excessive speed or impairment was involved

1 chase January 27, 2015Incredible video shows cuffed woman driving 100 mph in stolen police cruiser BEAVER COUNTY, Pa. — A newly released nine-minute dashcam video shows how fast a handcuffed woman traveled while leading officers on a chase in a stolen police cruiser outside of Pittsburgh earlier this month. 27-year-old Roxanne Rimer led officers on the chase through Center Township, Beaver County, after crawling through the glass partition of an officer’s cruiser. was detained on suspicion of shoplifting before the chase and somehow managed to drive the cruiser with her hands behind her back. “With her back turned and her hands cuffed behind her back, she manages to put it in gear and drive.

January 20, 2015 update Technology tycoon, wife and their four grandchildren confirmed dead in 'suspicious' fire at $9million Annapolis waterfront mansion Daily Mail as police probe ruins for the hallmarks of arson Picturesque property near Chesapeake Bay engulfed by flames in the early hours of Monday morning Belonged to Don Pyle, former CEO of several large tech companies, and now COO of Virginia-based ScienceLogic The headteacher at Severn School in Annapolis sent out a letter confirming the deaths to staff and students today Eighty-five firefighters were sent to battle the 3:30am fire that ravaged the home, which took four hours to control. Specialists with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives now say the fire is 'suspicious' - partly because of how quickly it ravaged the home. trained dogs will sniff out any traces of accelerant chemicals, which would help determine whether the blaze could have been a deliberate attack.

2 killed January 19, 2015Myanamar teachers found claimed raped and murdered by government troops Myanmar said it would investigate the deaths of two teachers who activists claim were raped and murdered by government troops, as crowds gathered in the country's far north amid rising anger over the killings. The battered bodies of the two women, aged 20 and 21, were found Monday in a remote village in Shan state where they were teaching children on behalf of the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) tags: christian victims, school incident

2 arrested January 19, 20152 Accused Of Ramming Car with 35 lb Meth into San Bernardino Sheriff's car Antonio Cabada, 23, and Gabriel Banuelos, 32, both of San Bernardino were arrested last Monday at the end of a chase that ended in the city of Rialto. Spotted in suspected drug activity, a Taurus led police on a chase and intentionally drove the Taurus into a sheriff vehicle in an attempt to escape. A search of the Taurus yielded about 35 pounds of methamphetamine

1 killed 1 arrested Pemberton Township, New Jersey police arrest a woman and charge her with the murder of her newborn baby girl which she set on fire. Officers extinguish the fire, but the child later dies. (AP via MSN)

January 3, 2015 spree January 15, 2015 update Kentucky teens on 'Bonnie and Clyde' spree leave trail of stolen cars January 15 New York Daily Fugitive Kentucky teenagers left stolen truck in Georgia, took another vehicle with guns inside: cops The search for Dalton Hayes, 18, and Cheyenne Phillips, 13, continues as the teenagers involved in an alleged Bonnie and Clyde type crime spree were spotted in South Carolina on Monday and then their stolen vehicle was recovered in Henry County, Ga. on Thursday morning. Authorities said they stole another vehicle with handguns inside and are concerned for their safety. Dalton Hayes, 18, and 13-year-old Cheyenne Phillips left their homes in central Kentucky on Jan, 3 tags: bonnie and clyde couple, stolen cars, crime spree, fugitive

1 killed 1 guilty February 2, 2014 crash January 12, 2015 update Minneapolis driver sentenced to 4 years in bicyclist's death St. Paul Pioneer Press A Minneapolis man fifty-year-old John Iverson has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal vehicular homicide. Iverson was accused of driving his van last February after drinking heavily at a bar. Witnesses say Iverson sped west down Franklin Avenue in south Minneapolis, then suddenly swerved toward the curb and struck Marcus Nalls, a 26-year-old African American chef and bicycle commuter. Nalls was hit in the right lane, and the van veered up onto a snowbank, dragging Nalls underneath the car.

1 killed 80 hospitalized January 12, 2015Passengers bail out when Washington DC Metro Train fills with smoke One woman died and more than 80 other people were sent to the hospital, mostly for smoke inhalation, after the electrical malfunction Monday on Washington's Metro. A day later, 21 passengers remained hospitalized, and the accident had left a multitude of unanswered questions.NTSB investigator Michael Flanigon said the smoke started when something came into contact with the high-voltage third rail and caused an electrical arc and smoke filled the cars. There was no fire An electrical malfunction causes a fire in the Washington, D. C.'s Metrorail subway system near L'Enfant Plaza Station resulting in one death with 84 people taken to hospitals, mostly from smoke inhalation. (AP)

2 killed 5 injured January 11, 20152 dead, 5 injured in Hope Mills NC house party mass shooting Two people are dead and five more are injured after an early morning shooting near Hope Mills when violence broke out at a party at the home. The sheriff's office identified the two people who were killed as 32-year-old Tanishia Graham and Izaak Bridges, 20. The five injured were all shot.

On Sunday, prosecutors said they have linked shell cases found in the eastern Paris town of Fontenay-aux-Roses, where the jogger was shot and severely wounded, to a Tokarev gun carried by Mr. Coulibaly at the kosher grocery on Friday. Four hostages were killed in that attack.

January 11, 2015Islamic State Releases Video Calling Grocery Store Gunman Its ‘Soldier’ Purports to Show One of the Paris Attackers A new video appears to show Amedy Coulibaly pledging to Islamic State, or ISIS. Coulibaly killed four people Friday during a standoff at a kosher deli near Paris, and is linked to the Charlie Hebdo attackers. Wall Street Journal French prosecutors said they suspect the gunman who killed four people in a kosher grocery store was also involved in the shooting of a jogger near Paris on Wednesday, the day of the attack on a magazine that kicked off a terror spree in France.

38 killed 50 wounded A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 50 wounded. (Reuters),

20 killed An Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation bus falls into a ravine near the town of Penukonda in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh killing at least 20 people. (DNA)

1 drone found Philippines President Benigno Aquino III demands an investigation after a drone purportedly belonging to the United States Navy is found in the Philippine province of Quezon, the second found in the country. (Manila Standard Today)

The United States denounces a flag-raising ceremony at Taiwan's de facto embassy in Washington DC, saying the ceremony violated US-Taiwan ties. (AFP via Yahoo)

1 threat 1 arrested January 7, 2014FBI says John Boehner's West Chester bartender planned to poison him Feds: Man said he was Jesus, Boehner was the devil Ebola, evil voices from the car radio and the devil are what a Butler County bartender cited as reasons he was going to kill House Speaker John Boehner this past fall, federal agents said. Michael Robert Hoyt, 44, was indicted Jan. 7 on charges of threatening to murder the congressman in a plot police said included poisoning his drink at a country club.. served drinks to Boehner for more than five years at the Wetherington Country Club.. Hoyt called police on Oct. 29, a week after being fired from the club, and blamed Boehner for his woes, police said.

shots fire at police January 5, 2015Police: Hidden gunman fired at Melbourne officers FLORIDA TODAY Patrol officers remain undeterred about patrolling a south Melbourne neighborhood Tuesday, hours after someone in the residential area fired off several rounds at police which hit near officers who were outside of their car. It was similar to other shootings reported across the country in the wake of several high-profile cases involving officers using deadly force

January 3, 2015 spree January 15, 2015 update Kentucky teens on 'Bonnie and Clyde' spree leave trail of stolen cars January 15 New York Daily Fugitive Kentucky teenagers left stolen truck in Georgia, took another vehicle with guns inside: cops The search for Dalton Hayes, 18, and Cheyenne Phillips, 13, continues as the teenagers involved in an alleged Bonnie and Clyde type crime spree were spotted in South Carolina on Monday and then their stolen vehicle was recovered in Henry County, Ga. on Thursday morning. Authorities said they stole another vehicle with handguns inside and are concerned for their safety. Dalton Hayes, 18, and 13-year-old Cheyenne Phillips left their homes in central Kentucky on Jan, 3 tags: bonnie and clyde couple, stolen cars, crime spree, fugitive

1 killed 6 injured January 1, 2015 One of 7 shot in Calgary New Years party was driving by ctvnews.ca Dead man identified as 26 year old Abdullahi Ahmed from Calgary (apparently Arab / Muslim) police don't know if he was the intended victim.

1 killed January 1, 2015Alleged drunk driver hits taxi, woman in backseat killed WABC-TV Hours into the New Year, her 27-year-old niece Pamela Pimentel became the first New Yorker to die in a traffic crash in 2015. She was minding her own business on the way to work in the backseat of a livery cab. When at a red light, out of nowhere, a black charger plowed into the cab.